Microsoft is rolling out a major update for Outlook.com

Microsoft is eager to take major steps to improve its communication services, and ‘Outlook.com’ will be the medium for it this time, it is recently reported that ‘Outlook.com’ is getting a brand new update which will include plenty of new features and a brand new interface that will improve user experience further and will be a bit more appealing. Microsoft is saying that these features are currently rolling out to a small testing group and in the coming weeks you will be able to opt-in to the program.

These are the following new features:

Clutter—Get help managing your inbox. Clutter works on your behalf, sorting messages you’re likely to ignore into a separate folder, so you can focus on what matters. The more you use Outlook.com, the better Clutter gets. You can help train Clutter by dragging messages in or out of the Clutter folder and you can turn it on or off depending on your preferences.

Search Suggestions and Refiners—Find what you need, fast. Suggestions put the people you communicate with and the content in your mailbox at your fingertips when searching for content. Refiners let you pivot your search results based on the sender, folder, date received and attachments. We’ve also added highlighting, making it easy to spot your search terms within the results.

New themes—We’ve added 13 new themes with graphic designs to help you express your personality in your inbox.

Link preview—Just paste a link into your message and Outlook.com automatically generates a rich preview to give your recipients a peek into the contents of the destination. It works great with any webpage, but try it with video links from Vimeo and YouTube for something even better.

Inline images—Copy and paste images directly into the body of your message, right where you want them.

Pop-out read and compose—Multi-tasking is easy with messages that pop out into new windows.

Pins and Flags—Keep essential emails at the top of your inbox with Pins and mark others for follow-up with Flags. Pins are now folder specific, great for anyone who uses folders to organize their email. Quickly find and manage your flagged items with inbox filters or the new Task module, accessible from the app launcher.

Add-ins—Announced earlier this month at Build, add-ins appear while you’re reading or composing a message and are designed to help you complete the task at hand. In addition to the Bing Maps, My Templates and Suggested Meetings add-ins that are built-into Outlook.com, we’re excited to have third-party add-ins on the way from Uber, Boomerang and PayPal. Watch for more partner announcements soon.

New Skype experience—Seamlessly shift conversations between email and Skype. Chat with a group, or one-on- one, using all your favorite Skype emoticons. Start a voice or video call by pressing the call button.

Simplified sharing from OneDrive—Sharing files through the cloud is the best way to keep everyone on the same page, but uploading a file and setting permissions can add a lot of extra steps. Now it’s easy, just attach the file to your draft message—drag and drop or with the file picker—and with one click you can convert it to a shared OneDrive link.

Side-by-side views—Open an attachment and see it side-by-side with the email. You can view or edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents while simultaneously replying to the original message. Best of all, any changes you make to the file are automatically saved and attached to your response when you hit send—no need to download, edit, save and re-attach the revised file. Side-by-side view works great with photos too.

And to even make it much better, the Outlook team, like many other Microsoft services, has opened a ‘UserVoice’ page where users can comment and suggest features to them too. The easiest way to submit feedback is to click the gear icon and then select feedback. All of these new features are coming to Outlook.com users in the near future and represent a large upgrade to the service to make sure that it remains competitive with other services.